Posted on June 14th, 2009 by Scraps.
Categories: Words, Reading Classics.
I picked up Generation of Vipers by Philip Wylie yesterday at a flea market. It was published in 1942, and it is bracing. It starts, "It is time for man to make a new appraisal of himself. His failure is abject. His plans for the future are infantile." Etc. It also presents an attack on destructive mothers -- "momism" -- which gained the most attention at the time; a glance at the relevant chapter is deeply sexist. But the book is an attack on nearly everything. I think I'm going to enjoy this.
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